The former NOCCA building, photographed in September 2010. (Sabree Hill, UptownMessenger.com)
With tentative neighborhood support after a meeting with the new owner of the former NOCCA school building, high-end condos are emerging as a likely next life of the century-old Uptown New Orleans landmark.
Developer Jim MacPhaille met June 8 with the zoning committee of the Upper Hurstville Neighborhood Association to discuss options for the old LaSalle School on Perrier, and left with their preliminary agreement with a plan to convert it into a development of about 15 to 18 high-end condos with a few standalone homes on the side of the property. The condos would likely sell for $400 per square foot, he said, and the site would likely have about 48 parking spaces on it. Continue reading »
I love coffee. No really, I love coffee. Proof: I happily worked in cafes for over a decade before finally retiring my green apron. Okay, they asked me to leave. No really, they did. But, another story for another time. Back to coffee. Good coffee. Where to get it. How to brew it. But when you’re away from your environs as summer months tend to bend our routines, what do you do? Pray to Kaldi wherever you are traveling there’s a halfway decent cafe? Or maybe you’re a full on coffee geek (like me) and you travel with your coffeemaker? See, as much as I love Kaldi, I’ve traveled enough to know that praying and gambling on a decent cup of coffee is a hope and a bet you’ll almost certainly lose every time. So beat the odds, and travel prepared. This is your morning cup of coffee we’re talking about here. Some things are sacred, and to me, this is one of them.
Four Uptown businesses plan to make requests before the City Planning Commission on Tuesday: Ignatius Eatery on its plan to move into the Rue de la Course site on Magazine, a request for a Japanese convenience store and coffee house on South Carrollton, the Walgreens on Claiborne’s intent to begin selling package liquor and a proposal for a fresh food market on Earhart Boulevard near the Fontainebleau neighborhood.
A 22-year-old woman was found dead Sunday morning of a gunshot wound to the head inside her Hollygrove home, police said.
A driver traveling on South Carrollton was shot to death by someone inside his vehicle Saturday evening, police said.
Contrary to appearances at the time, the city’s shutdown of the Iron Rail Book Collective in March was not about a feud between police and downtown anarchists, one member said Saturday morning: it was an attempt to rid a gentrifying downtown of homeless people.
